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get that constitution out of here, traitors
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ABNorman wrote:It's a tight local elections race in key cities in South Africa. Johannesburg and Pretoria pretty much neck and neck.
Is there much that ANC opponents can do to improve growth?
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simple schoolboy wrote:
ABNorman wrote:It's a tight local elections race in key cities in South Africa. Johannesburg and Pretoria pretty much neck and neck.
Is there much that ANC opponents can do to improve growth?
Expecting a political idealogy to improve your economy is like paying a prostitute to improve the weather.
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McParadigm wrote:
simple schoolboy wrote:
ABNorman wrote:It's a tight local elections race in key cities in South Africa. Johannesburg and Pretoria pretty much neck and neck.
Is there much that ANC opponents can do to improve growth?
Expecting a political idealogy to improve your economy is like paying a prostitute to improve the weather.
China would have experienced the same growth rate with or without the great leap forward? Thats quite a claim.

If you intended that to mean political ideologies that are only marginally different, then sure.

The question is really whats the breakdown of the crappy economy being the result of mismanagment versus shitty commodity prices.
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The Great Leap Forward that produced one of the most destructive and horrific famines of modern history? The one that crushed their own sustainable agriculture and wiped out half a generation of potential dreamers and laborers? Some 20 million human hearts and minds?

Yeah, sure. I'm okay saying that.
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McParadigm wrote:The Great Leap Forward that produced one of the most destructive and horrific famines of modern history? The one that crushed their own sustainable agriculture and wiped out half a generation of potential dreamers and laborers? Some 20 million human hearts and minds?

Yeah, sure. I'm okay saying that.
Some political ideologies are more destructive to wealth creation and human welfare than others? Sounds like we're on the same page.
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I think at this point it's pretty much a waiting game, unfortunately.

The DA and EFF have cut into the ANC's votes this year. If the DA manages to capture Tshwane (Pretoria, very possible), and even Johannesburg (close, but slightly less possible), they'll have the biggest metros.

Then the key is to deliver and use those wards as a base to build in the area.

BUT, as I said, it looks like it's just a case of waiting for the more ANC-sceptical youth vote to become the majority. 2019 will be ANC, but with the possibility of them not winning the Western Cape (Cape Town) and losing Gauteng (Johannesburg & Pretoria) - the two seats of government.

Then if the ANC don't have some kind of party cull and clean themselves up, 2024 is the first real threat.
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What party does Chappie support?
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Simple Torture wrote:What party does Chappie support?
Droids don't get voting rights in South Africa. It's one of our biggest failures of freedom.
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Is Sharlto Copley president down there yet?
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E.H. Ruddock wrote:Is Sharlto Copley president down there yet?
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Anybody voting third party or is the threat of a conservative Supreme Court appointment too scary to risk?
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Why can't we have nice things?
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I just get sad when I think about all of the dead drone victims and I start to think irrationally.
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